Forensic Psychiatry, Pharmacogenetics & Adverse Drug Reactions

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About Dr Yolande Lucire

Dr Lucire is a forensic psychiatrist. Research is the cornerstone of her professional expertise and has formed the basis of Dr Lucire’s current work in pharmacogenetics, focusing on why adverse drug reactions occur, and personalised medicine, the safe prescribing practices necessary to ensure that they do not.

Dr Lucire is committed to speaking truth to power, although power knows the truth, but is paralysed into wilful blindness and is doing nothing. Since 2004, she has been informing regulatory bodies and the public of the potentially harmful effects of poorly prescribed and monitored psychiatric drugs.

Dr Lucire has fifty years of experience as a clinician and consultant, giving her a unique overview of the changes wrought in the psychiatric treatment paradigm following the introduction of 'biological psychiatry,' leading to the widespread use of psychiatric drugs. She has lectured on psychiatry at undergraduate, intern and post-graduate level, and has worked in a variety of hospital and prison settings, and in private practice.